 In with us on this occasion You are also involved in what is going to be one of the more important campaign events of ours It's coming up on September the 9th. And so we want to express our Gratitude to you for your effort in helping to make that event such a successful one and Because of the fact that I will be delivering some remarks that evening. I'm not going to bore you with Remarks this evening. It is my privilege and I do have a high honor this evening To make an introduction or two the first person that I want to introduce to you is To me the most important person in the United States of America, and that's my wife Gloria now now the next person that I'm going to introduce is Is an outstanding American that I have had the pleasure of working with Going back to the year of 1966 and from that date forward and when he ran for governor of this state and when he became the governor He inherited at that time a Financial mess that we had in Sacramento where the state was spending a million dollars a day more than it was taking in and he took on that task and He worked and got us back on a very sound financial basis and indeed improved the conditions in California for the people of this state and when he left office, of course He left it in tremendous shape and then he moved on to his present position Where instead of talking about millions of dollars. They talk about billions of dollars But again, he had to inherit unfortunately Another fiscal mess and he has undertaken now that challenge and of course He is proceeding to handle it in just a marvelous fashion I'm I'm now going to present to you the person that I think is the most important person in the entire world and more importantly just a marvelous human being of Great American our president president Ronald Reagan. Thank you very much Thank you Thank you. Well, I'm delighted to be here and I was waiting kind of anxiously to hear I know that I'm here for all of you who've done the work of Making that September 9th event successful and I was beginning to wonder who he was going to get for the September 9th event and And And he got the right person You know if I could let me just say a few words about you can't Have held that job in Sacramento for this great state so unique and in all of the country and all of the world without having a lifetime feeling of Proprietorship for it and I've looked in the years since and seen some of the things that have happened in Sacramento The rhetoric was never matched by deeds part of the one who had taken that office and Couldn't help but have a great feeling of concern and now with this election My heart is filled with the greatest hope Because I know this man Served when he was in the legislature And then when he was attorney general He knows the problems of the state. He has proven his capacity for dealing with them and now in the vantage point that I look from it is doubly important With regard to California because I went to Washington with a dream and The dream and we're going to make it come true was one of restoring the 10th article of the Constitution of the Bill of Rights that article that says That the federal government shall do only those things specifically called for in the Constitution and that all others Shall remain with the states or with the people and We have drifted a long way in the last few decades From that concept of a federation of sovereign states that was our great strength and the basis of our freedom and My dream is that through a program. We call federalism we are going to Make that happen and we're going to return to the states and to the local communities and to the counties those powers That rightly belong there along with the revenue sources to fund them We're not just going to dump them on the local taxpayers the federal government in usurping the powers and authorities of those other levels of government has distorted the very structure of this nation and has also usurped the tax sources that properly belonged at the state and local level Now if we're going to do that Then I think it must be in your mind. It's must be awfully important Who is here at this end then? To organize to manage those programs that for so long have simply been Functions now and then delegated In part by the federal government there has been a philosophy abroad in the land that the state should be reduced to Administrative districts of the federal government. Well, don't you let that happen? This country will remain strong so long as it is a federation of sovereign states it's unique in all the world in that respect and this is the man that I believe has the capacity to handle those enlarged responsibilities and therefore, he's the man that Should be in Sacramento as governor of this state and when he has to cross the state line The constitution still says that you're no longer governor till you come back and then Carol How it'll be there with him and she'll be able to hold the fort While he's across the state line but let me Let me let me just give you an example of I can and I'm gonna do something else here an example of What this man has in his background and what he has done for the state of California? For about seven of the eight years. I Had a hostile legislature The opposing party had a majority in both houses Now, maybe many of you haven't thought about this but in the structure of government the party that has the greatest number of members of the assembly and of the Senate in each case has the majority of each committee and Names the chairman of those committees. Well one year due to some special elections We wound up with a bare majority in both houses and that year Now that we had the majority in the committees and the chairman of the committees Out of the one committee that was literally a burial ground for good legislation Came 41 anti-crime pieces of legislation Almost all of them if not all Were authored by this man They had been buried in that committee as long as the other fellows were in charge and They came out of that committee to the floor and then once out on the floor Even the other side that had bottled them up in committee where they could be kind of anonymous in doing it Didn't have the nerve to vote against them and in that one year We passed 41 pieces of anti-crime legislation and the polls that not too long ago said that inflation was the number one Problem they don't say that anymore because inflation for the last seven months has been running at 5.4 percent not 12.4 percent Just wanted to get in that lake because Because I also wanted to emphasize that now near the top if not the top of many polls the problem on people's minds is crime and I think The moment has come when a man with the experience George Duke-Majin should be the governor of the state of California George and Gloria, could I do something though? I don't have very much chance to visit with the home folks And I just wondered if rather than me going on here all the why could go on quite extensively about George Duke-Majin all the way back to what he mentioned back to 1966 and that campaign and I remember sitting with him and getting sound and solid advice was down in Long Beach when we first met and I continued to get sound advice and help from him in all the days that followed but Maybe some of you have said to yourself if he ever came back out here, and I had a chance I would like to say to him or I would like to ask him and Couldn't we for just a few minutes at least have I know we haven't got much time But could we have a little dialogue and if there's someone that has thought that to sing out and we'll Try to have some dialogue here You don't need a question fine. Thank you Thank you very much, you know every once in a while these people who have come here from someplace else We need to talk to them to get re-inspired as we see through their eyes What it is we really have and what we too often take for granted here. Yes Yes, the question if you didn't hear it was that she heard Elizabeth Dole Bob Dole's wife Who is on our staff in the White House? Speak and she was greatly impressed and I can understand why you were and am I planning to appoint Many other women like that. It might interest you to know that at this point only a year and a half into office We've appointed more women in top positions in government than anyone at that stage of their of their Tenure has ever done and we're going to continue doing that And she she is doing a magnificent job there We've got a Supreme Court justice that's doing pretty well, too Yes, oh Margaret and then a gentleman or were you Margaret? Thank you very much Can we do now Well, this was a this was something that was very much in my mind and I have long thought that our country well intentioned many times but never quite Succeeded in approaching our neighbors to the south and bringing these two continents together And I have that too has been a dream that when you look at these two continents Six more than 600 million people Richest two continents and natural resources and and Thousands and thousands of square miles that have never even been developed yet All of us came here with the same dream came from someplace else our ancestors or ourselves in search of freedom and What I've dreamed of is an accord between the Americas Where we could be friends and we started out and I think that we established with our nearest neighbor Mexico and I met with the president of Mexico Prior to taking office after I'd been elected I think we have a better relationship and a better bond than we've had and we're continuing with that You're right. There was a setback over this thing that took place in the Falklands, but we're going right back to what we were doing We have a piece of legislation Having a little trouble getting through in Washington called the Caribbean initiative Now this is aimed at some of the countries in Central America and then those island nations out in the Caribbean and It is a program to help them develop their own economies To help them become self-sufficient and so forth and I know that our neighbors to the South are looking at that as a As a sign of our intentions and to see whether we can bring it off So our first goal is going to be to resolve that but I Do intend and we intend to pursue this program of bringing the Americas together. Can you imagine what? That would look like throughout the world North and South America Allied together in the cause of freedom and individual liberty and free enterprise and that's That's what we're what we're aiming at and I think there are some signs that the Temporary bitterness has receded Yes, Jim The enterprise zone again This is another thing that's in committee and that we're trying to get out the enterprise zones is a plan Not only for the major cities, but for rural areas as well We want to start it on an experimental basis about 75 to begin with and that is using tax incentives from the federal to the local level as and as Allure to in the rundown areas The centers of poverty and so forth we can persuade Businesses and industries to start up because of tax breaks that will be given Hire the people in those areas who will also receive tax breaks because they're presently not paying taxes that bulk of them are on the various help programs of government and Develop those inner cities to provide jobs in those pockets of great unemployment and this this plan would not be one that would have a great cost because First of all the local community isn't getting property taxes from those rundown areas They've taken over most of the land in those areas now in default of taxes the businesses would come in would be entitled to a Break in that regard while they established a business and the people who would then become employed are presently not paying taxes They are a cost to the government and so all of these could be the incentives That would bring private enterprise in to refurbish these particular Areas in our country. Yes What is the most difficult most difficult surprising portion of the job? You know, it's kind of it's kind of hard to answer because I have to tell you I'm enjoying myself it's oh You know you go to work in an elevator and you go home in an elevator and sometimes you You get a little claustrophobia that the quarters are beautiful and and it's very Fine living and all that but every once in a while you do look out the window and you see people walk by and you say You know something that they can do and I can't I can't just walk down to the corner drugstore and pick out a birthday card or a magazine or something and So then you go to Camp David and get it out of your system No, I really It's I think that we've been fairly successful, and I know I've got to wind this up now because I'm keeping everybody here much too long Sometimes I suppose one of the things yes, I can think of something Sacramento The capital to and but even that didn't prepare me for the greatest custom in Washington, which is the leak I've gotten sometimes in the cabinet room that I'd addressed particular remarks to the chandelier I'm sure that must be where they're listening and the worst thing about some of the leaks though is that they're not based on Factual information just on a little information and so often the frustrating thing is you can't respond and correct them because they deal for example with let's say international relations and and to refute the Error that has been widespread then through the news you would have to reveal things that You cannot diplomatically reveal Yes People who require government help But they were passed and fixed in them was the trigger that automatically increased them in cost and This is what's uncontrollable and So you come into office and the budgets have been proposed for a few years ahead Just as we have to when we submit this last budget bills suggest where they're going but automatically those programs increase so We passed in last year in our big economic recovery program we passed Enough cuts to reduce spending by a hundred and thirty billion dollars over three years The present program that we passed last week with the tax so-called increase, but I call tax reform in it That over a three-year period will reduce the spending By two hundred and eighty billion dollars over the next three years and yet all of that is in the increase of spending That isn't as if you could go in and say here. We're going to spend less than we spent before now We and by we I mean myself in the legislature Must deal with this problem of what are called the entitlement programs to find and get a control On those programs to lessen that automatic increase in spending now with this last program that we passed and you know, there was great controversy about it and some of us who were Aligned spiritually find us found ourselves on different sides The plain truth was that when we set out to get the second year's installment of budget cuts We found this time we could not do it unless we agreed to some revenue measures Now we passed the greatest tax cut in history Last year to be phased in over a period of more than three years You got the first installment ten months ago the second installment a month ago First of July third installment will come next July and Then there will be the indexing that follows that where we will index the tax brackets so that you won't get pushed into higher brackets just by way of inflation and It is still in spite of what we did the biggest single tax Cut in history because in spite of the tax bill that was passed last week with the additional cuts The tax cuts over the next three years for all of you will amount to 335 billion dollars in spite of the 99 billion dollars that was in this tax bill But in talking to congressman about that and I have put it in writing When they or if and there will be attempts to bust the budget to send down budget busting bills And I sit with pen in hand waiting to veto and have pledged in writing. I will veto budget busting bills and George knows I've had a little experience as governor in those eight years. I vetoed 943 bills in the eight years and none of those 943 Were overridden and in the legislature so I've only had a chance to do this a couple of times in Washington But yes, we must curb that that runaway spending and we're we're going to do that I that has to be the last one out there because then the immigration bill that is and Well, how do I say this because this bill was passed. I don't know exactly and When I should say except that it was passed with the intention that we had lost control of our borders all of them and That we had to restore the ability to determine immigration to our country here We realized also that there were many people here who Had come a long time ago and who literally think of themselves as belonging in this country and that's why the provisions are in there to grant them The right to stay in permanent residency on the basis of the length of time that they've been here Whether we have whether we have plugged all the holes or not. I don't know Whether we have met some of the needs of our neighbors. I don't know But I know it I know it's a program that or a problem that we had to move on To find a solution and that was evidenced in the last great invasion of People that were not just political Refugees but people that just wanted to live in the United States and we do have an immigration system and quotas and so forth and This is trying to get regain control of our own borders But now get back to the business at hand and then I must must leave here once again and I mean this seriously I've Known this man worked with him as a legislator and all those things in the welfare reform and everything that we did in California know him and you know him and his record as an attorney general and I Don't mean this in any disparaging way about his opponent but The government of the city of Los Angeles Does not allow the mayor to be an Executive in the sense that a governor of the state is We have a city council form of government and I say the man with the experience the knowledge The integrity to do the job is the man that's here on the platform with us tonight George Duke major